Evaluating patient satisfaction through latent class factor analysis

Health and Place

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 210-218

  Cavrini, Giulia ^a   Galimberti, Giuliano ^a   Soffritti, Gabriele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Italy; Latent class factor model; Multi level data; Ordinal data; Patient satisfaction

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; DATABASE; FACTOR ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL SECTOR; PERCEPTION; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY;

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; WARD;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 54549118165     PISSN: 13538292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2008.04.007     Document Type: Article

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